How to install VirtualBox Option 1 : Calamares We recommend this option as it is the easiest way to get VirtualBox on your computer. During the ArcoLinux installation Calamares will provide you the choice to either install: VirtualBox for a linux kernel VirtualBox for...
Installing gnome-boxes could not be any simpler. Open a terminal and type sudo pacman -S gnome-boxes Now reboot. We show you in the video what settings I...
Vmware is not supported officially. Virtualbox is. All software and services are tuned for Virtualbox on ArcoLinux. If you have paid for vmware or you can get a licence (University agreements, …), you can try out ArcoLinux in Vmware. These two tips will help you...
Virtual box is and will stay our official supported Virtual Machine emulator. Installing can be done on any desktop. Look past the desktop environment We start by re-using our installation script from ArcoLinux-Nemesis github. We download the zip file and run the...
31 December 2018 we get an update in : new kernel 4.20 and virtualbox 6.0. The first image is virtualbox before the update. The second image is the content of the update. The third image is virtualbox after the update. Time to do something about this “new...
My current settings on January 2020. The settings I have been using all the time on Virtualbox 5 are all the same EXCEPT ONE. I learned it the hard way and I want you to save the time with this article. Make sure you set the graphics controller to VBoxSVGA Do not...
You can install an operating system in a virtual machine like virtualbox, vmware, boxes, qemu,… and others. BUT Operating systems should run on “real metal”. They need to be installed on your laptop or desktop. All the RAM and all the power of the...
We can install vmware workstation from AUR via trizen or yay but there are some specific challenges to overcome. I have analysed the problems and made a script for it. In the future this script may not work anymore. Just report and we will check. We explain you the...
Virtual Box was released on 31/12/2018 and they had changed one of their graphics controller settings. Standard we used to have VboxVGA and now the standard is set to VMSVGA. This might be your issue with Virtualbox 6. Check this link first. ...
Follow this procedure and you will be fine: yay linux-mainline to build the newest kernel from kernel.org (see article) – install also the linux-mainline-headers! sudo pacman -S virtualbox sudo pacman -S virtualbox-host-dkms update-grub...
We had just installed vmware on ArcoLinux in this article. You can check that tutorial for the settings. I wanted to know how ArchMerge behaves in Vmware workstation. That is why I created the tutorial. We set the system as well here. 16GB of memory and 1 cpu with 4...
In the context of this tutorial we use Samba if we want to share files and folders with other computers in our private network. One computer becomes the Samba Server. It will give the service to share data on that computer with others on the network. Samba is already...
Like in Virtualbox we can also have the need to share files and folders between the host system (in video plasma) and the guest system (in video arcolinux). Alternatives are usb’s and cloud services. We have already installed vmware following this article. And we have...
